A Distant Neighborhood

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Synopsis

A 50-year-old man is transported back into the body of his adolescent self, perhaps allowing him to solve the mystery of his father’s disappearance. Sam Garbarski brings Jiro Taniguchi’s manga comic to 1960s France. Air provides the soundtrack.

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The story could be quite a cliché if it was not done in an unexpected and floating way, in part thanks to Air's incredible soundtrack (also the composers of the Lost in Translation amazing Kyoto scene). Léo Legrand is really stunningly powerful for his age. A movie about the fact that growing up means understanding one's powerlessness.

PLAY IT AGAIN SAM... Quel homme, à l'automne de sa vie, ne rêve pas de retourner en arrière, adolescent, au pays de son enfance ? Ce joli rêve Sam vous l'offre avec ce joli film,délicat, à l'ancienne, à contre courant. == What man, in the autumn of his life, does not dream of turning back, adolescent, to the country of his childhood? A pretty dream, a pretty film, delicate, old fashioned, far from the madding crowd.